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Aphitos in Literature and Art
Aphitos is presented very dynamically in the world of literature and art. Ancient historians - philosophers that make up the nucleus of Greek national conscience, but also more recent creators, artists and literature figures, holdovers of an undying tradition, make up the echo of Aphitos as they appear in history.
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ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗΣ
ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΟΥΣ 1319Α. 5-28.
ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΩΝ ΥΙ παρ. 4-7.
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15. ΝΥΝ ΔΕ ΔΕΙ ΔΙΟΡΘΟΥΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΩ ΑΦΥΤΑΙΩΝ ΝΟΜΩ, ΠΡΟΣ ΓΑΡ Ο ΛΕΓΟΜΕΝ ΕΣΤΙ ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΣ. ΕΚΕΙΝΟΙ ΓΑΡ, ΚΑΙΠΕΡ ΟΝΤΕΣ ΠΟΛΛΟΙ, ΚΕΚΤΗΜΕΝΟΙ ΔΕ ΓΗΝ ΟΛΙΓΗΝ, ΟΜΩΣ ΠΑΝΤΕΣ ΓΕΩΡΓΟΥΣΙΝ· ΤΙΜΩΝΤΑΙ ΓΑΡ ΟΥΧ ΟΛΑΣ ΤΑΣ ΚΤΗΣΕΙΣ, ΑΛΛΑ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗΛΙΚΑΥΤΑ ΜΟΡΙΑ ΔΙΑΙΡΟΥΝΤΕΣ, ΩΣΤ' ΕΧΕΙΝ ΥΠΕΡΒΑΛΛΕΙΝ ΤΑΙΣ ΤΙΜΗΣΕΣΙ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥΣ ΠΕΝΗΤΑΣ. |
15. But today we can make beneficial reformations, in accordance with the laws of the Aphetes. Because, for the success that we hope to achieve (in forming an agricultural community) the law of the Athetes is useful. Even though they, (i.e. The Aphetes), are many in number, they possess small pieces of land. But they are all farmers.
Because that is by what everyone's income is determined, (by the ownership of land), and not by his total amount of property. They divide the actual land into such small plots that even the poor can have an adequate income from the land that will allow them to gain political rights.
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ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΗΣ ΠΟΝΤΙΚΟΣ
«ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑΙ» (ΦΡΑΓΚΜΕΝΤΑ) XXXYIII
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ΑΦΥΤΑΙΩΝ: ΔΙΚΑΙΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΩΦΡΟΝΩΣ ΒΙΟΥΣΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΛΛΟΤΡΙΩΝ ΟΥ ΘΙΓΓΑΝΟΥΣΙΝ, ΑΝΕΩΓΜΕΝΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΘΥΡΩΝ. ΦΑΣΙ ΔΕ ΠΟΤΕ ΞΕΝΟΝ ΠΡΙΑΜΕΝΟΝ ΟΙΝΟΝ ΜΗ ΑΝΑΛΑΒΕΙΝ, ΕΠΕΙΞΑΝΤΟΣ ΑΥΤΟΝ ΤΟΥ ΠΛΟΥ, ΚΑΤΑΛΙΠΕΙΝ ΔΕ ΑΥΤΟΝ ΕΝ ΤΗ ΑΠΟΣΤΑΣΕΙ ΟΥΔΕΝΙ ΠΑΡΑΔΟΝΤΑ, ΥΣΤΕΡΟΝ ΔΕ, ΚΑΤ' ΑΛΛΗΝ ΕΜΠΟΡΙΑΝ ΕΛΘΟΝΤΑ, ΕΥΡΕΙΝ ΤΟΥΤΟΝ ΑΘΙΚΤΟΝ. |
The Aphetes: They live righteously and virtuously and they don't touch things that belong to others even if the gates are open. They say that once a stranger bought wine from an Aphete but was unable to take it with him because he couldn't make it to the ship on time, so he left the wine somewhere out of the way on the beach unattended. When later on another of his trips he came back, he found the wine intact in its place. |
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Vagelis I. Adamoyiannis
Book: "The houses of Aphitos" |
Leonidas. D. Galanis
Book: «Aphitos from ancient to modern times". |
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Christos & Costas Kolovos
(Biography available in the chapter on
People of Literature and Art of Aphitos.)
Music for Aphitos:
"Love for Aphitos"
Book: Aphitos or Athitos" |
Maro Piara-Milona
(Biography available in the chapter on People of Literature and Art of Aphitos.)
Cookery book:
"Traditional recipes of Aphitos" |
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Gerakina Milona
Book: "Athitos and its painters" |
George Paralis
(Biography available in the chapter on People of Literature and Art of Aphitos.)
Paintings |
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Vasilis Pavlis
(Biography available in the chapter
on People of Literature and Art of Aphitos.)
Sculptures |
Chrisostomos Stamoulis
(Biography available in the chapter on People of Literature and Art of Aphitos.)
Music for Aphitos:
"Lilies of the sand"
Book: "Temples of Aphitos" |
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Nicos Pentzikis
Paintings
 (Brief biography: He was born in Thessaloniki in 1908. He studied pharmaceutics in Strassburg and worked as a pharmacist until 1968. At the same time he took up literature and painting on which he is self-taught.
He exhibited his paintings with those of other painters for the first time in 1944 in Thessaloniki . In 1951 he held his first personal exhibition in the same city. Till today he has been taking part in many group and individual exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
His contribution to the literary and cultural world of Thessaloniki is significant.) |
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Poliklitos Regos
Paintings
 (Brief biography: He was born in Halki of Naxos in 1903. His father was from Tinos and his mother from Mykonos . In 1913 he moved to Thessaloniki with his father's family. In 1926 he graduated from the workshop of Nicolaos Litras of the School of Fine Arts in Athens . In the same year he participated for the first time in an exhibition that had been organized in Athens , known as "Exhibition of the four": Spiros Vasiliou, Antonis Polikandriotis, Spiros Kokkinos, Poliklitos Regos.
In October 1926, he went to Mt. Athos for the first time where he stayed until the beginning of 1927, studying Byzantine art and the vestal vegetation of Athos. In 1920 he married and he and his wife moved to Paris where they stayed for five years. During that time the painter got the opportunity to study modern art closely. In 1934 he exhibited his paintings in the French capital and published an album with 21 wood engravings from Mt. Athos.
In 1935 he returned to Greece and settled permanently in Thessaloniki. In the summer of 1935 he visited Athitos. In 1936 he exhibited paintings inspired by our village at the Shelter of Art in Athens and in 1939 at the Mediterranean Palace in Thessaloniki , as we can deduce from the catalogues of those exhibitions.
From 1937 he taught design for twelve years at the Experimental School in Thessaloniki and later at the University of Thessaloniki (1951-1969). Being a creative artist, Poliklitos Regos did many different things - portraits, landscapes, hagiography - and he took part in many individual and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Two very significant personal exhibitions were held in 1980 by the National Picture Gallery in Athens and in 1983 by the Vafopoulio Centre in Thessaloniki . He was honoured with many distinctions in Greece and abroad during his sixty-year creative contribution to Art.
He died on 3 November 1984 while still painting pictures of Thessaloniki from his hospital window.)
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